A Message From ASAN Executive Director Julia Bascom
…open search for a new Executive Director. More information on the search process will be available in the coming months. While the search takes place, my current deputy Avery Outlaw…
…open search for a new Executive Director. More information on the search process will be available in the coming months. While the search takes place, my current deputy Avery Outlaw…
…Autistic people need to be involved in all stages of research design and paid for our work. Research about our community must be made accessible to us by communicating key…
…voluntary compliance would leave a large number of patients -particularly those with disabilities, in rural communities with limited provider access, or otherwise under-served- largely unprotected by these rules. We agree…
…Vermont, 2015-2022 American Community Survey. U.S. Department of Commerce. Retrieved from https://www.thinkwork.org/statedata/build-a-chart?report=comparison Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (TCIEA), S.533 and H.R.1263, SEC. 102, 118th Congress, (2023), https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/533 and https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1263…
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…its latest attempt to end this horror, the FDA has included findings that the device is both unsafe- due to the physical and emotional harms it causes- and ineffective at…
…ever to make sure autism research reflects what matters to all of us. Make your voice heard by submitting a comment to the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee before each meeting!…
…explicit exclusions or inaccessible research approaches. As a result, the IDD community has a much greater need for basic research on effective ways to support engagement, relative to other communities….
…the cross- disability rights movement; and the broader civil rights community. The Executive Director must value strategic policy advocacy and be skilled at embedding ASAN’s first principle of Nothing About…
…provide written testimony on the importance of Competitive Integrated Employment (CIE) to the disability community. ASAN is a 501(c)(3) advocacy organization run by and for autistic people. People with disabilities…